| Great
Lakes |
Beach water
quality sampling and closures (Michigan)
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/beach/public/default.asp
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Center
for Great Lakes Environmental Education
http://www.greatlakesed.org/directory.html
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Environment
Canada
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/community/classroom/intro-e.html
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| Environmental
Assoc. for Great Lakes Education (EAGLE) http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~lakes/eagle.html
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EPA Great
Lakes National Program Office
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo
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Great Lakes
Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
http://www.cciw.ca/glimr/data/great-lakes-atlas/intro.html
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Great Lakes
Information Network Sites
http://www.great-lakes.net/
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/water/water6.html
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Great Lakes
Science Center
http://www.glsc.nbs.gov
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International
Association for Great Lakes Research
http://www.iaglr.org
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Journal
of Great Lakes Research searchable archive
http://www.seagrantnews.org/
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USGS Real-Time
Water Data Website
http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html
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| Michigan
Tech Center for Water and Society (MTCWS) |
Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Education
Site
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3308_3580---,00.html
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Michigan
Sea Grant
http://www.miseagrant.org/
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Surf Your
Watershed. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
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T.E.A.C.H.
Great Lakes
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/
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| Images/Data |
Historical
and current maps of Lake Superior are under "other images"
http://chmac2.chem.mtu.edu/KITES/images.html
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1993-98
comparison of Lake Superior surface temperatures
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~jrbudd/kites/lst93_98/index.html
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Index of
satellite images for Lake Superior and other Great Lakes
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/lakersi/lars/avhrr_archive/avhrr_archive.html
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Terra Server
Website (aerial photos for most regions of the country)
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp
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| General
Water Websites |
America’s
Clean Water Foundation
http://www.acwf.org/
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Center
for Watershed Protection
http://www.cwp.org/index.html
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EPA Waterl
Education
http://www.epa.gov/waters/
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GLOBE
http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/globetg.jsp
(for hydrology info)
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RoboCow
http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/flash/robocow/en/robocow_e.htm
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Sea Grant
sites
http://www.seagrantnews.org/
http://www.miseagrant.org/
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Stormwater
Information
http://www.stormwatercenter.net/
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United
States Fish and Wildlife Service
http://midwest.fws.gov/
http://sssp.fws.gov/index.cfm
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Understanding
Lake Data (a PDF guide)
http://www1.uwex.edu/ces/pubs/pdf/G3582.PDF
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USGS Water Science for Schools
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/
http://answers.usgs.gov/AtoZIndex.htm
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Water on
the Web (University of Minnesota)
http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/overview.html
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Watershed
Game
http://www.bellmuseum.org/mnideals/watershed/watershed2.html
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| Watershedss:
A Decision Support System for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
http://h2osparc.wq.ncsu.edu/ |
Know Your
Watershed. Conservation Technology Information Center
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/
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Wetlands
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands
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Wetland
Kids
http://www.wetland.org/kids/Kids.htm
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What’s
Up With Our Nation’s Waters?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/
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What’s
Up With Our Nation’s Waters?
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/nationswaters/
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WIN-Watershed
Information Networks.
http://www.epa.gov/win/
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World’s
Water
http://worldwater.org/
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World Water
Monitoring
http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/
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Year of
Clean Water
http://www.yearofcleanwater.org
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| Michigan
Water Issues |
| Michigan
water right's issue (Mecosta County Perrier Plant http://www.wmeac.org/haps/press/current/perrier.asp |
Ice Mountain
Bottled Water (Nestle Water North America withdrawing groundwater
from Michigan aquifers)
Michigan residents must fight siphoning of our Great Lakes
http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040207/opinion/372197.html
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Waste Runoff
from Mega-Farms in lower MI
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/cafo22_20030722.htm
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| River
Projects |
BEES –
Water Curriculum Enhancers. Stony Brook Millstone Watershed
Association. 2002.
http://www.beesinc.org/
BEES works with educators to develop innovative environmental
education programs which are multidisciplinary, inquiry-based,
and customized around a local issue. Materials are designed
for middle school and desire to connect students to their community.
BEES maintains a Water Quality Monitoring Database and has developed
a Curriculum Enhancer on Water.
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Give Water
a Hand. University of Wisconsin Board of Regents. 1997.
http://www.uwex.edu/erc/gwah/
Do you know of a youth group or class that wants to take action
to improve local water quality? With Give Water a Hand, a national
watershed education program, young people team up with educators,
natural resource experts and committed community members to
study water issues and take action.
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Nationwide
Rivers Inventory. National Park Service.
http://www.ncrc.nps.gov/rtca/nri/
The Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI) is a listing of more than
3,400 free-flowing river segments in the United States that
are believed to possess one or more "outstandingly remarkable"
natural or cultural values judged to be of more than local or
regional significance. The Pere Marquette River is listed.
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Neuse River
Educator’s Resource Website UNC Wilmington and NC State
University. 2000.
http://www.uncwil.edu/neuseriver/home.htm
The Neuse River Educator’s Resource Website was designed
and written to complement the information and perspectives presented
in the documentary, Currents of Hope: Reclaiming the Neuse River.
The site is full of dynamic learning activities geared for students
in grades six through
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Rivers
of Life. Center For Global Environmental Education
http://www.cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/
Rivers of Life is a full model for contextual learning, a flood
of projects, adventures, and resources to help K-12 teachers
and students learn about and from their watershed. The watershed
is the focus for an interdisciplinary project about the environment
that helps students make global connections.
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